A guest recital by Erik Suter '95, organ, performing the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé.

A concert sponsored by the Alumni in Service to Oberlin College program.

Program:

Fugue sur le Thème du Carillon des Heures                   Maurice Duruflé    (1902-1986)

         de la Cathédral de Soissons, Op. 12        

Méditation pour Orgue, Op. posth.

Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain, Op. 7

Prélude, Adagio, et Choral Varié sur le thème du Veni Creator, Op. 4

Prélude sur l’Introit de l’Épiphanie, Op. 13

Scherzo, Op. 2

Suite pour Orgue, Op. 5

         Prélude

         Sicilienne

         Toccata

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Erik Wm. Suter ’95 is a musician of international acclaim. A native of Chicago, he holds degrees from both Oberlin Conservatory, where he helped found the Friday Night Organ Pump, and Yale University, and has studied with Haskell Thomson, Thomas Murray, and Gerre Hancock. He has held positions at Trinity Church, Copley Square, and at the Parish of All Saints, both in Boston; and at Trinity Church-on-the-Green in New Haven, Connecticut, and for nearly 10 years, he served as organist at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC.

Suter has performed extensively in many Asian and European countries as well as throughout North America, including at national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society. As a continuo artist, he has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra.

Suter won first prize in the 1993 Chicago American Guild of Organists Young Organist’s Competition; first prize in the 1995 National Undergraduate Organ Competition in Iowa; the Gold Medal of the Mayor of Musashino/Tokyo in the 1996 International Organ Competition in Japan; and first prize in the 1997 Yale Biennial Organ Competition. He was also a two-time finalist in the prestigious AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Playing. Suter has been featured numerous times on the nationally syndicated American Public Media show Pipedreams and has recorded for the JAV Recordings, Gothic, and Pro Organo labels.

Based at Washington National Airport, Suter is also a commercial pilot and flight instructor. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with his wife and son.

For more information, please visit www.erikwmsuter.com.